>>115315488Fucking this. I never understood why they always bitch around when people tell them to git gud and just drop it because their readers are being "ungrateful", even when they get enough money to wipe their asses with tanks.

Also I could have sworn cleaning and all that shit was more time consuming, annoying and perhaps more difficult than simply inserting a script and timing it, given they don't give a shit about encoding.

>>115315530As a TL myself at the moment, I don't really give a damn about the series I'm currently working on right now, so if people don't like the job I'm doing, I'll probably go find a series I actually want to do/move on with life.

Of course, I'm not getting paid, so...wait, people get paid to scanlate?

>>115315488>>115315530Are there just a few really bad groups or something? I've worked on scanlation in small groups for a while and I've never come across people like that. We just put in the effort, get out chapters at a reasonable rate and we do it for free

>>115315669But the only time you should experience any drama like that is because you weren't working hard enough. If somebody steals your project because you haven't touched it in months, that's your fault. If somebody tries to steal your project when you put out 5 chapters a week, then they're retarded and are wasting their time when they could be working elsewhere.

>>115315743Nothing better than >Group 1 does project at slow and steady pace>Group 2 picks it up and blazes through a bunch of chapters>Group 1 bitches and drops it>Group 2 eventually runs out of steam and drops it or puts it on hiatus

>>115315743I agree but again, the scanlation scene is a mess. Hell, /a/ made one group quit fairly recently. At least with fansubs, they is a type of structure to them but with scanlations its all over the damn place.

also are you just literally going to pagiarize other people's translations and then deny it, or are you going to hire them on and bring everyone together into some sort of unholy scanlator corporation?

I could literally write four essays and get a doctorate on my work reporting how fucking awful, shitty, and autistic scanlators are.

>YOU CANT HAVE THIS SERIES IT'S MY SERIES I CLAIMED IT NOBODY ELSE CAN WORK ON IT BUT ME IF ANYONE ELSE DOES IT THEN WE'LL DROP IT>we are absolutely entitled to $500 per page otherwise we'll drop it >6 blank pages at the start, 12 with just character heads in the corner, 4 deviantart tier pages advertising or giving credit to the group working on it, badly photoshopped page from the manga or even worse from another manga acting out how the "director" is such a bitch forcing poor translators to do work and other stupid 'haha we have fun' bullshit or begging for money/translators/typesetters>typesetting job is fucking awful that an ape could do better, almost like they didn't even bother to review their own work like a bunch of lazy junior-high students >absolutely filled to the brim with fucking autists, just replace sonic OC with the scanlation product as the "OC" and it fits fucking perfect >MUH WATER MARKS OH MY GOD THIS IS MY PROPERTY DEATH TO MANGA ANIMAL BOYCOTT THIS WEBSITE>some legitimately call a series "their series" as if they own it and are the ones producing it >lazy fucks spend 12 years working on three chapters when some Mexican is ahead 40 chapters doing it by himself in Spanish just for some busy work >kissumanga

>>115315774I've been "group 2" in this exact situation. In my defence group 1 had the thing on a 3-4 month hiatus after two chapters at that point (and effectively left the scene regardless a few weeks later, deleting their site and lots of releases) and I did somehow complete the thing in about a year taking a couple of hiatuses of my own.

Still, I feel bad for stealing a project even now (I didn't even plan to "steal", I was just making temporary tl for anons), but I'm trying to justify myself by thinking that it would have probably stayed untranslated to this day.

>>115316064Well, for>lazy fucks spend 12 years working on three chapters when some Mexican is ahead 40 chapters doing it by himself in Spanish just for some busy work Pretty much compare any chink scanlations on, well, any series that has chink scanlations.

If there are scanlations of something, the Chinese will be scanlating it as well, and most likely be up to date.

>>115316064Gantz scans does it a lot and also constantly replaces "mom" with "mum". I've been told even people in the UK don't spell it "mum" even if they pronounce it like that so I'm forced to believe they're subhuman.

Fallen Syndicate does half the examples listed too. Actually I've seen pretty much ever scanlation group guilty of at least 4 of those, the list of ones who don't would be smaller. Utopia is usually pretty good and c_k is only ever guilty of too many translator notes.

>>115316135>I've been told even people in the UK don't spell it "mum" even if they pronounce it like that so I'm forced to believe they're subhuman.

Yes they do. Only reason to use "mom" instead is on 4chan where people will find any reason to nitpick a post without addressing what is actually being typed. Same reason a lot of Brit lingo is intentionally avoided.

>>115316081I DISTINCTLY remember that for Mahou Sensei Negima, the only scanlation group that were putting out the chapters regularly for a while were all doing it from the Chinese scanlation group that were putting out chapters almost within a day of release (and doing a fineass quality job too).

Basically, you get the text from reading another scanlation group's work or somebody who scanned the official Chinese release, and you just use Japanese raws for typesetting, cleaning and release. Or in the case of the Negima example, using the Chinese scanlations for both.

>>115316217I see. Well, I'm more curious from the standpoint that for a lot of series there are no Japanese raws whatsoever, but chinks seem to scan almost everything that is released in China and that's a whole lot of titles.

You guys have no idea, try reading shoujo manga.Fuck there was one manga where the cleaner didn't bother cleaning thought bubbles no matter how big or small he just wrote over the chinese written there.Nothing as bad as reading shoujo considering worst boy always wins.

>>115316135>I've been told even people in the UK don't spell it "mum" even if they pronounce it like that so I'm forced to believe they're subhuman.Depends where you are in the UK, really. Living in the north east, I hear 'mam' more than either (probably down to 19th century Irish migration), but write mum. Mom and mum aren't different when you filter it through regional dialects.

As for writing it, 'mum' is certainly the standard.

In any case, it comes over as pretty fucking stupid to translate anything Japanese into 'mum', because it just makes me think the character has a British accent.

>Group 1 does project at slow and steady pace>Group 2 picks it up and blazes through a bunch of chapters

That happened to me a few times. I didn't bitch about it and the other groups were not fast at all. I just moved on to another series. Though it was disappointing to see the other groups stall and eventually drop the series.

>>115316281I use them if there's something that I just can't adapt (my English is rather bad, I've learned it from the internet) or it really does need an explanation - either some obscure Japanese thing that is barely googleable in Japanese itself (in a recent example making sense of some old Japanese tableware was a bitch) or, well, puns that are constructed in a way that cannot be adapted without losing the point.

>>115316441They've been trolling about that for a while for whatever reason. Yes, they're ripping Crunchyroll - both the video and the subtitles - and no, I don't know what's the point of their latest "lol nope we're actually translating" shtick.

>>115316565No it has been specifically named multiple times if you can't bother to read then you're either retarded or purposefully ignoring it because it's inconvenient to whatever shitty point you're trying to make.You sound like an ass-blistered scanlator which would make sense because I doubt the majority of scanlators can read.

>>115316473So wait, you want an online Chinese manga reader site? Best one I know of ishttp://www.8comic.comOtherwise you would have to go the scanlation group's site itself, and they like to bury themselves in forumsKeyword "漢化組" for scanlation group, and "(Chinese title of series) 在線" for online reading. Trad or simplified shouldn't matter.

Or do you want Jap raws download?http://www.manga-zone.orgSearching for them should be self-explanatory and doable in English.

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